The Air Force invests more of its total budget in joint force support than any other service. In fact, investments in joint capabilities, such as space, mobility, and intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance, account for about 45 percent of its total budget, states a...

The general overseeing the Air Force’s nuclear forces made an unambiguous appeal for the Senate to approve the New START arms reduction agreement with Russia. “The New START treaty ought to be ratified, and it ought to be ratified as...

The strain of fighting two wars, trying to take care of airmen and their families back home, and preparing for the future has taken its toll on the Air Force. “We were doing so much that our readiness rates were...

If the Air Force keeps its legacy fighters longer than expected due to potential delays in the F-35 program, Air Combat Command will be selective about which aircraft get service-life and capability upgrades, says ACC Commander Gen. William Fraser. “We...

Air Combat Command is focusing its training and readiness programs on missions that airmen are going to do for sure, putting less likely missions on the back burner. That’s the word from ACC commander Gen. William Fraser, who spoke Tuesday...

An equipment malfunction likely caused the communications disruption between a squadron of 50 Minuteman ICBMs and their overseers in Wyoming on Oct, 23, Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, head of Air Force Global Strike Command, said Tuesday. “Our initial sense is...

Air Combat Command officials are considering moving some remotely piloted aircraft operations from Creech AFB, Nevada, to other locations, said Gen. William Fraser, ACC boss, Tuesday. Creech is “getting saturated, so we need to break out the capacity,” he stated...

Air Combat Command has done “everything we can” to support higher-ups as they decide upon the characteristics of the Air Force’s next long-range strike platform, ACC chief Gen. William Fraser said Tuesday. ACC’s role has been “working with the combatant...

NORAD is “aware of the unexplained contrail” off the southern California coast Monday evening, but “unable to provide specific details” as it works “to determine the exact nature of this event,” a command spokesman told the Daily Report Tuesday. He...

Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, Air Force Global Strike Command boss, doesn’t think the new Air Force-Navy Air-Sea Battle concept will have a big impact on how the Air Force employs its B-2 stealth bombers. “Our focus on B-2, obviously, is...

E-8C Joint STARS ground-surveillance aircraft are the newest 707-based platforms in the Air Force, but paradoxically fly with the oldest engines. “There is one issue with this fleet, and that’s the engines,” Dave Nagy, Northrop Grumman’s vice president of business...

Boeing will supply the Air Force with nearly 2,700 additional Small Diameter Bombs and approximately 380 BRU-61 bomb carriages under a $106 million contract award for Lot 7 production announced Tuesday. The company says it will start delivering this equipment...

The last B-1 bomber with the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth AFB, S.D., has received the modifications to operate the Sniper targeting pod, wing officials announced Tuesday. With the integration now complete, the wing is able to incorporate Sniper training...

Members of the 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman AFB, N.M., have completed a series of tests with Raytheon’s Laser Maverick missile using a modified C-12J transport aircraft nicknamed “Ms. Mable.” What made this testing notable was that it marked...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Nov. 3, 2010 Sortie Type OND OEF OND/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 74 97 23,342 CAS/Armed Recon 12 77 89 30,016 Airlift 205 205 53,404 Air refueling 50 50 14,897 Rescue 36 36 6,921 Total...